Hi all, here they are some noob questions: - What happend with the wounded pilots? Do they return to their original units, or do they go to a pool to replace the units wich need them? - How do you play with Switzerland? The game lets you fly over Switzerland, but it seems to me a bit gamey... Do you restrict the flying over Switzerland with house rules (in a human vs human, of course), or do you fly without restrictions? - My opponent (the allied side) have noticed that his raids into the Rumanian's oilfields usually ends with a bombing over a "gosth objective" (I can´t explain it better). Is it a bug, or is it only bad luck? I also have noticed that in his raids over Stutgart the bombs had fallen over a rocket engine fabrik two or three times that he sent a raid to a nearby aviation fabrik; the rocket engine fabrik is still off-line (a gosth objective also). Is it bad luck again, lack of reccon...? - My opponent (allied side) tells me that he have some units with a LOT of pilots, but usually only fly a reduced group. Is that ok? - How do the elint night bombers works (to get data)? - Can anyone tell me how do the different night war devices works in the game? i.e. to use properly the Gee/whatever you have to... etc - I have read somewhere in the forum that the single engine nightfighters will be replaced with Bf-109G14 and Fw190a7 (or 8, I can´t remember). I still have not Bf-109G14, but I have a pool of about 70 Fw190a7, and only it was upgraded a nightfighter Stab unit. Have I to have a number of planes into the pool before the upgraded is done? I know that the Bf109G6 are used to replace allied fighters (Ga, etc) when I have over 500 planes in the pool, so I think that probably it's the same for the nightfigter Fw190? I need more daylight fighters! If I have some other questions I'll post them latter. Thanks in advance! and Happy New Year (and happy next patch).

ORIGINAL: npsergio Hi all, here they are some noob questions: - What happend with the wounded pilots? Do they return to their original units, or do they go to a pool to replace the units wich need them?

...and here there is only one noob response (for the other questions wait for some 'guru'): -They return to their original units, and if you see the message 'pilot * bails out and wounded (16)' it means that he return in 16 days.

Thank you Cohimbra... Maybe you know more about this question. Just an example: I.e. I have a unit, an Eprobungs with 12 me-262 wonder weapons with 12 planes and 12 pilots. I had sustained some losses and I have now 4 high experienced pilots wounded. Also I had 4 more killed. So now I have 4 experienced pilots active along with 8 green pilots (12 pilots actives). Let's asume that two of the wounded return to the unit... What will happend? Will 2 of the green pilots return to the replacement pool, or do the unit have now the 12 active pilots (4 experienced, 8 green) AND the 2 returned ones (2 experienced), so a total of 14 pilots?

Thank you Cohimbra... Maybe you know more about this question. Just an example: I.e. I have a unit, an Eprobungs with 12 me-262 wonder weapons with 12 planes and 12 pilots. I had sustained some losses and I have now 4 high experienced pilots wounded. Also I had 4 more killed. So now I have 4 experienced pilots active along with 8 green pilots (12 pilots actives). Let's asume that two of the wounded return to the unit... What will happend? Will 2 of the green pilots return to the replacement pool, or do the unit have now the 12 active pilots (4 experienced, 8 green) AND the 2 returned ones (2 experienced), so a total of 14 pilots?

Thanks in advance!

Well...it's difficult to response to your question because there are also the replacement pilots to consider; I have some JG with 30 aircrafts and 45/50 pilots, some newby some expert, some new-entry some assigned to squadron by default. It's not easy to track all the pilots, but I think (I think) that when you take replacements and your pilots WIA return, all stay here. But I'm not sure about that.

correct. once a pilot is assigned to a unit he's there till he dies. We don't have a tour of duty or a reassignment option. If the roster is full then returning pilots just increase the organisational size of the unit, but not the combat size.

- Can anyone tell me how do the different night war devices works in the game? i.e. to use properly the Gee/whatever you have to... etc

Ok, I try to give you some useful info about night equipment, both allied and axis: this is what you can find in old Talonsoft version of the game, maybe something has changed, maybe not. But it's the best (and only) info I found (obviously, if I understand what you're looking for, my understanding of english language is very very basic):

Naxos - radar detector, carried by German Night Fighters Used to home in on H2S radar, which is commonly carried by British pathfinder bombers. max detection range: 10 miles effectiveness: 50

FuG 202 - aircraft radar, earliest version of the German airborne radar Airborne radar fitted in Axis night-fighters. max detection range: 2 miles effectiveness: 8* [the asterisks (*) indicates that this radar's effectiveness is greatly reduced by 'Window', which were clouds of aluminum strips used to jam Axis search radar.]

Oboe - aircraft navigation system Airborne navigation system using radio beams for precision bombing in poor visibility. max range: 300 miles from friendly base (the beams are actually projected from the airfield and are effective only within the indicated miles; any aircraft performing missions outside their Oboe range will not benefit from the navigation system). effectiveness: 65

Jostle - radio jammer Used to jam radio frequencies used by Axis ground controllers directing night-fighter interceptions. max range: 100 miles effectiveness: 20 [Note: If a night fighter is within 100 miles from a unit with Jostle radio jammers, its communication ability might be jammed, and you will lose control of the unit for as long as the jamming is in effect.]

Mandrel - radar jammer Used to jam radar frequencies used by Axis ground search radars. max range: 100 miles effectiveness: 20 [Note: Effective use of these jammers is represented on the map with small red circles appearing around Axis radar stations.]

ELINT receivers - radio intelligence equipment Used to gather information on Axis radio and radar transmissions. Such information eventually led to development of devices to jam radars and disrupt Axis communications. max range: 100 miles effectiveness: 25

ORIGINAL: npsergio - I have read somewhere in the forum that the single engine nightfighters will be replaced with Bf-109G14 and Fw190a7 (or 8, I can´t remember). I still have not Bf-109G14, but I have a pool of about 70 Fw190a7, and only it was upgraded a nightfighter Stab unit. Have I to have a number of planes into the pool before the upgraded is done? I know that the Bf109G6 are used to replace allied fighters (Ga, etc) when I have over 500 planes in the pool, so I think that probably it's the same for the nightfigter Fw190? I need more daylight fighters!

The only info I have about that is in the .PDF posted by Nicholas Bell at this link: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2376274 In the table you can find all the upgrade path and the date that they become available, very very very helpful. Reading that pdf it seems that after 1/44 you can upgrade your night fighters Fw 190A-5/N in day fighter Fw 190A-8/R8 (I think is the R7 version whit 30mm Cannon MK108 instead of the 20mm Cannon MG151). Hope this help whit your (and, why not, whit mine) game!

About the nightfighters... Yes, I know that. Even one stab unit have changed planes, but it stopped to change planes. I mean, only one stab changed planes (I think that it's the 300JG/Stab). That's why I think that you need one or two other requirements: 1. or planes will change from a given date (obviously it's not january 44, but later, because I'm on april 44 and only one stab upgraded), 2. or you need a stock of Fw-190A8 in order to upgrade planes (axis allies fighters upgrade to Bf109 when you have more than 500 Bf109 in stock) Sadly I'm not sure. In the pdf it seems that the Bf109 nightfighters only upgrades to Bf109G14, so it will be later in my game. I hope that the FWs will upgrade in that date too, as I ned dayfighters in numbers!